Tucked away in the heart of Downtown St. Paul, Minnesota there is a very special bookstore called Subtext Books. Matt Keliher is the buyer and manager for the store and we sat down and talked about the indie book business, local authors, pandemic survival, and of course personal recommendations. You can follow Matt on Twitter under the handle @MAKeliher and you can support Subtext Books by purchasing from their website SubtextBooks.com. You can also support this and other local bookstores through Libro.fm that allows you to listen to audiobooks while contributing to indie booksellers.

Here is a list of books recommended in the episode:

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny

Latehomecomer and The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang

IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives by Chris Stedman 

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

Wintering by Peter Geye

The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

River of the Gods by Candice Millard

Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James

St. Paul: An Urban Biography by Bill Lindeke

I, Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita